About Yan Li: Yan Li got her Ph. D from Department of Agricultural Education atTexas A&M University in 2004. Since September, 2004, Dr. Li has been working at Institute of Educational Technology, College of Education, Zhejiang University. Her research interests include distance education, ICT education, media education, diffusion of educational innovations, and etc. In recent years, she has presided several international-, national- and provincial-level research projects and has published series of academic papers or books in area of educational technology.

Topic of the class: 

The digital divide and media education in China

Structure of the presentation

Title of the class: Theory and history of political use of social media

Structure of the class:

• What is social media?
• What is hardware?
• Digital democracy
• Civil Society
• Public Sphere
• First wave
• Asking Questions about social media

• What is social media?

• What is hardware?

• Digital democracy

• Civil Society

• Public sphere

• First wave

• Asking questions about social media

Readings

Fuchs, C. (2012). “Some Reflections on Manuel Castells’ Book “Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age.” Triple-C.

Guest Speaker: Sarah Gaby (UNC-Chapel Hill, Sociology)

About Sarah Gaby: Sarah Gaby is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is interested in social movements, political sociology, and organizations, particularly as they relate to youth civic engagement. Her dissertation examines the role of youth organizations in shaping activists. She has published recent work on how social movements like Occupy Wall Street utilize online resources, and the interactions between local protest and federal policy during the Civil Rights Movement.

Structure of the presentation

• Introduction of Sarah Gaby made by professor Chip Bruce.
• Introduction by Sarah Gaby
• On Civil Rights  Movement
• Occupy Movement (preparation, on the ground and online)

Introduction of Sarah Gaby made by professor Chip Bruce.

Sarah Gaby introduces her interest  in Occupy movement and the research she conducted together with Neal Caren.

Has Social Media changed the ways in which social movements get organized? Take a look at Civil Rights movement.

http://youtu.be/gkpzu8FdDDU
How Occupy Movement came about
http://youtu.be/Kn3o250_z64

Watch also:

Preparations for the Occupy Movement
http://youtu.be/Ux6JlIvokw0

Occupy Movement as it developed on the ground
http://youtu.be/wK5sC5mD06o

Occupy Movement online
http://youtu.be/XAQLNFRMluQ
http://youtu.be/8FgpWm__tRc

http://youtu.be/sfQX1u6Jn-w

Readings

Sarah Gaby and Neal Caren. 2012. “Occupy Online: How Cute Old Men and Malcolm X Recruited 400,000 US Users to OWS on Facebook.” Social Movement Studies.

Clay Shirky. 2011. “The Political Power of Social Media.” Foreign Affairs.

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